Margaret was sorry to say good-bye to Miss More and little Ida when the voyage was over, three days later.

She was instinctively fond of children, as all healthy women are, and she saw very few of them in her wandering life.

It is true that she did not understand them very well, for she had been an only child, brought up much alone, and children's ways are only to be learnt and understood by experience, since all children are experimentalists in life, and what often seems to us foolishness in them is practical wisdom of the explorative kind.
When Ida had pulled Margaret away from the railing after watching Mr.
Van Torp while he was talking to himself, the singer had thought very little of it; and Ida never mentioned it afterwards.

As for the millionaire, he was hardly seen again, and he made no attempt to persuade Margaret to take another walk with him on deck.
'Perhaps you would like to see my place,' he said, as he bade her good-bye on the tender at Liverpool.

'It used to be called Oxley Paddox, but I didn't like that, so I changed the name to Torp Towers.
I'm Mr.Van Torp of Torp Towers.